Improvement in children s carriages



. riages which are known as childrens sportthe front side of the fr IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 893,919, dated August 7, 1877; application filed June 30, 1877. p

To all whom it may concern: riage, and also, by throwing it over back Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BUsH, of ward, for guiding the carriage in going down Fall River, in the county of Bristol andSta te hill. of Massachusetts, have invented a new and When thus thrown back the tongue rests valuableImprovementin Ghildrens Carriages; on the edge of a lever, H, which is pivoted or and I do hereby declare that the following is hung on journals in a casting, I, secured on top of the neck A The lower end of the lever H extends down through a slot in the ence being had to the annexed drawings, 1 casting I and neck A and has its extremity making a part of this specification, and to forked and straddling a bar, J, placed insuitable guides on the under side of the bed or platform A. A pin or crossbar, a, is attached to this end of the bar J, for the forked of alongitudinal vertical sectional view of my end of the lever H to childs carriage, and Fig. 2 is a bottom view me. b, projecting from a shaft, K, running trans- My invention relates to that class of carversely under the bed, immediately in front of the hind wheels 0 0. To the ends of this lng-carriages, and which are often used,'like shaft are attached the brake-shoes L L. sleds, for running down hill and the nature is a spring operating against another arm, of myinvention consists in the construction I), also projecting from the brake-shaft K, to of the front portion of such carriage with the turn t e same so as to throw the brakes off tongue, and in the construction and mode of of the wheels, operating the brake, all as hereinafter more In going down a hill the carriage can thus fully set forth. be easily guided, and at the same time the he annexed drawing, to which reference speed regulated, by pressing down the tongue is made, fully illustrates my invention.

plied with more or less force, as desired gfid What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The platform A, constructed as described, and provided with the tongue-support H, in reversible tongue Gr, pivoted to the front axle, and straddling the neck A of the platform, substantially as de- The front end of the bed or platform A forms a neck, A, with a round end, as shown, which rests flat upon the front axle D, said axle being pivoted to said neck, and having the front wheels E E placed upon its ends.

These arms or prongs are pivoted to ears on OHARLE HORSWEL'L BUSH Witnesses:

RONALD CAMERON, BENJAMIN F. WINsLow,

arranged that they will straddle the neck A of the bed, and the tongue can thus be reversed, so as to be used for pulling the caron the lever H, whereby the brakes are ao- 

